ICE-GB was first released in 1998 with ICECUP 3.0. Since then it
has been used for research and education in universities, colleges
and schools all over the world.

ICE-GB Release 2 on CD-ROM

The new ICE-GB Release 2 with ICECUP 3.1 has been released.

Release 2 is aligned with the 300 audio recordings which are available
as an optional extra. You can also upgrade from ICE-GB R1
at a low cost. See the order form for
details and why you should consider upgrading
below.

ICE-GB contains:

One million words of spoken and written British English from
the 1990s.

Tagged, parsed and checked.

Bundled with the latest ICECUP
3.1 exploration software designed for parsed corpora.

Supplied with Getting Started with ICECUP 3.1 (40pp)
and extensive on-line help.

Download Release Candidate 2 of ICECUP 3.1.1 with ICE-GB sampler

The
latest version of our state-of-the-art ICECUP software is now available
as a beta release for download from our website ahead of the official
release in 2016.

The Release Candidate 2 package contains a new software
codebase created with Visual Studio, and a new complete help file.
Most importantly, the software has been reworked extensively to
ensure that it is compatible with 64bit and 32bit versions of Windows,
from XP to Windows 10.

WHAT
IS SPECIAL ABOUT ICE-GB?

ICE-GB is fully grammatically analysed.Like all the ICE corpora, ICE-GB consists of a million words
of spoken and written English and adheres to the common
corpus design. 200 written and 300 spoken texts make up the
million words. Every text is grammatically
annotated, permitting complex and detailed searches across the
whole corpus.

ICE-GB contains 83,394 parse trees, including 59,640 in the spoken
part of the corpus. This is the biggest collection of parsed
spoken material anywhere with the exception of DCPSE
(which only contains spoken material). The picture below shows ICECUP
3.1 displaying a single tree from the spoken part of the
corpus.

ICE-GB has been fully checked. It
was checked by linguists at several stages in its completion, using
both a traditional post-checking strategy and also by
cross-sectional error-based searches. We do not believe that the
analysis in the corpus is perfect, but it is not systematically
imperfect - unlike the best parser output.

ICE-GB comes complete with ICECUP.
ICECUP allows you to perform a variety of different queries, including
using the parse analysis in the corpus to construct Fuzzy
Tree Fragmentsto search the corpus.

Release 2 of ICE-GB is now available. This includes, as
an optional paid-for extra, the digitised
speech recordings of the spoken part of the corpus, aligned
with the text. This allows researchers to play back the original
source of the text that they can see on their screen.

A sample corpus from ICE-GB Release 2 and ICECUP 3.1 is now
available for download. We also
invite linguists to contribute to the development of cutting-edge
corpus linguistics tools by participating in our beta programme.

Synchronous audio. If you want to play the audio aligned
with the transcription you will need to upgrade. This facility
means that if you search for a word in the corpus, you can hear
the passage containing that word.